![Cheryl Pendell, MA, LPC, NCC, CPT](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/cheryl-pendell.jpg)
Family Therapist
Cheryl Pendell, MA, LPC, NCC, CPT
Licensed Professional Counselor
Lee's Summit, Missouri 64149 | 816-699-2047
Families go through periods of time in which they need help. Do you feel that your family is struggling and you feel lost in how to help? I am a Family Therapist and have a unique talent of helping families find new ways to connect in meaningful ways. If your family is experiencing troubled times don't wait for it to get worse. I will help you find a way to navigate through these difficult times and learn ways of communicating so that each person feels valued, loved and accepted. I work from a systems perspective and can help you identify strengths of your family system and more importantly find ways of reconnecting in a meaningful way.
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Family Therapist
Lori Collins, LCSW
Clinical Therapist
107 SW Market Suite D, Lees Summit, Missouri 64063 | 816-799-1705
Family therapy can provide insight into what motivates us to behave a certain way and gaining insight into how each family member gains and looses during various interactions can become insightful to facilitating change. Experience has proven itself that one family member's change can lead to a ripple effect of further change. Family and individual therapy can help make change possible.
![Jessica Willemsen, MSW, LSCSW, LMAC, LCSW](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/jessica-willemsen.jpg)
Family Therapist
Jessica Willemsen, MSW, LSCSW, LMAC, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker and Addiction Counselor
6901 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Suite 219, Overland Park, Kansas 66202 | 816-295-7223
Though individual therapy is an essential piece in mental health recovery, the addition of family therapy can further the recovery process. Very few of us live as isolated life, remaining unconnected to others--no family, friends, or coworkers. Therefore, helping an individual communicate with their family, and helping the family to not only understand but learn how to help their loved one--can be an important part of the recovery process. Whether it be trauma, addiction, or mental illness such as Bipolar, Depression, or Anxiety, family therapy can help build a healthy support network. We all need supportive people in our lives. Family therapy can help.
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Family Therapist
Kevin Fleming, Ph.D.
Coach/Change Agent/Consultant
Kansas City, Missouri 64101 | 1-877-606-6161
Most family therapists inadvertently create more chaos through their well-intentioned efforts to assist a family move through a change process. Why? Brains are inherently dysregulated (all of us, may I add) and most talking and dialoguing misses brain-centric problems that need more intensive help. Many times the emotional trauma created by years of solving problems ineffectively can wreak havoc on the brain's parasympathetic nervous system, not ever giving the family a break from flight or fight thinking. Contact us for an innovative neuroscience solution to family dystunction. Kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161
![Barbara Cleverdon, M.S., LCMFT](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/barbara-cleverdon.jpg)
Family Therapist
Barbara Cleverdon, M.S., LCMFT
Licensed Clinical Marriage & Family Therapist
1225 N. 78th St., Suite A, KANSAS CITY, Kansas 66112 | 913-515-6919
As a Family Therapist, involving the whole family is important to looking and understanding the dynamics of your unit. There will be times when all are invited for a session, with rules that hopefully promote honest discussion, non-judgmental listening, open communication and problem solving. Depending on the problems presented, there may be times when each member will have their own session such as the parental system will have their own session/s and then the sibling system will have theirs. Grandparents may be invited for a session, as well, especially if they play an ongoing supportive role in the family life.
![Richard Bates, LCMFT, RN](https://www.theravive.com/images/counsellors/richard-bates.jpg)
Family Therapist
Richard Bates, LCMFT, RN
Richard D Bates, Marriage and Family Therapist
205 South Fifth Street Suite 13, Leavenworth, Kansas 66048 | 913-271-7099
Your family is probably experiencing a "bad" person. As a contextual therapist, I am aware that your family is actually one unique "ecosystem". And like an ecosystem, the system balances out. In biology, we called this phenomenon "homeostasis". I am a systems expert and all systems operate under the same rules. No corporation, government, or family is exempt. I can correct this imbalance.
64030 is a zip code located in Jackson County and part of Grandview, Missouri. It has a land area of 14.720 square miles.  The population of 64030 is 24,422 people.